Newbery Award Announced!

Newbery Medal:
"The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman, HarperCollins Children's Books

Newbery Honor Books:
"The Underneath" by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

"The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom" by Margarita Engle, Henry Holt and Company, LLC "Savvy" by Ingrid Law, Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media, LLC

"After Tupac and D Foster" by Jacqueline Woodson, G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers

2009 Caldecott Awards Announced!

2009 Caldecott Medal:
Beth Krommes, illustrator of "The House in theNight," written by Susan Marie Swanson, published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

Three 2009 Caldecott Honor Books were named:


"A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever,"written and illustrated by Marla Frazee and published by Harcourt, Inc.


"How I Learned Geography," written and illustratedby Uri Shulevitz and published by Farrar Straus Giroux


"A River of Words: The Story of William CarlosWilliams," illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant The book is published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Nikki Giovanni Rap for Obama

Very cool inaugural rap by child's author and poet Nikki Giovanni:

http://bit.ly/obamarap

4/5s in Library for Inauguration

The library was graced with the presence of the entire 4/5s group to watch the inauguration on our wall-size LCD monitor. We streamed the CNN version. It was awesome! The students were especially impressed by the canons! And Aretha Franklin's hat.

Want to watch the inauguration speech and swearing in again? Try the White House blog at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/

8/9s PowerPoints

The 8/9s are nearing the end of their Internet Research PowerPoint projects. They looked up information on the Internet ( see November posting for our four favored search engines) and put together the information they gathered into PowerPoint presentations. The results were very impressive and much quieter than usual!

For our next project, we are teaming with Sarah our science teacher to create PowerPoint presentations on scientist and/or inventors. Very exciting!

2/3s Checking Out!

Patti/Sara/Deb's class had their first library check out last Friday! It was an exciting time! Parents should have received a memo with library policies and the name of the book their child checked out. Remember: books are due again on Friday!

To get more info on library policies, please go to:

http://www.corlearsschool.org/educationalprogram/lib_policies.asp